Found on July 1, 2025, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile, this visitor is only the third confirmed interstellar object ever found, following the enigmatic ‘Oumuamua ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth impact has now been ruled out, the asteroid's story continues.

Astronomers have upped the odds that "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 will crash into the Moon, potentially causing a cloud of shrapnel that could impact Earth-orbiting satellites and other ...

June 2025 — NASA refined asteroid 2024 YR4's path, raising chances of a lunar impact in 2032. The asteroid no longer poses a significant threat to Earth, experts confirmed after new observations ...

Could an asteroid hit the moon? Odds rise after NASA's Webb examines YR4. The projections NASA's James Webb Space Telescope caught the latest glimpse in May of asteroid 2024 YR4, which led to the ...

The newly discovered asteroid 2025 KF will pass within one-third of the Earth-moon distance on May 21.

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been remains a mystery.

Peanut-shaped surprise for Lucy in asteroid flyby Asteroid Donaldjohanson was the second destination on the NASA mission’s itinerary — and its size and shape were not what scientists expected.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has captured imagery of the strange asteroid Donaldjohanson. The mission is en route to investigate the Trojan asteroids near Jupiter.

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that without launching nukes into space means getting creative.

Even though this asteroid won’t strike Earth, there is still a small chance that it could impact the moon. Mostly, though, astronomers are keen to study it to understand what future asteroids ...

While asteroid mining is already being undertaken, the first mission didn't exactly go off without a hitch. Here's what happened after it left earth.